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Richard Nixon made "prior restraint" a household phrase in 1971 when his lawyers got a court order to stop The New York Times from publishing the Pentagon Papers. A Supreme Court justice called the restraining order "a flagrant, indefensible and continuing violation of the First Amendment." Four decades later, a Connecticut judge, Stephen Frazzini, is practicing prior restraint. He is stopping the Connecticut Law Tribune from publishing an article on a child-custody case. The judge has ordered secrecy in this case for all parties — including the extraordinary step of censoring a newspaper. The Law Tribune says its article is based on a court document that...

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Richard Nixon made "prior restraint" a household phrase in 1971 when his lawyers got a court order to stop The New York Times from publishing the Pentagon Papers. A Supreme Court justice called the restraining order "a flagrant,...

HARTFORD — Rick Daniels, a veteran of the New England media industry, was named publisher and chief executive of the Hartford Courant Media Group on Friday, succeeding Nancy A. Meyer, who was promoted to lead a newspaper media group in Florida.
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